Sascha Wil­son

A San Fer­nan­do man who went to col­lect a car which he had rent­ed to some­one was shot dead in South Oropouche ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve Dwayne Reid’s mur­der had some­thing to do with the car.

Reid, 42, of Cir­cu­lar Dri­ve, was a part-time PH dri­ver and KFC dri­ver and al­so rent­ed ve­hi­cles.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were told that around 1.30 am, Reid went to the home of a friend at St John Road, South Oropouche, and asked him to ac­com­pa­ny him to col­lect one of his ve­hi­cles at Mitchell Street, South Oropouche.

His friend dropped him off at Mitchell Street and he (Reid) walked in­to a road.

Just as Reid came out of the street dri­ving a gold Nis­san Ti­i­da, his friend heard a male voice shout ‘where yuh go­ing with that car’ and heard sev­er­al loud ex­plo­sions. The friend drove to the po­lice sta­tion and made a re­port.

When the po­lice went to the scene, they saw the car crashed on the side of the road with the left pas­sen­ger win­dow shat­tered and Reid slumped over the pas­sen­ger seat.

Vis­it­ing the scene were of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 3 and South West­ern Di­vi­sion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, the de­com­pos­ing body of a 61-year-old man was found at his Pe­nal home on Sun­day. Vi­vian Mathu­ra was last seen alive by his rel­a­tives at his Pluck Road, San Fran­cique home around 8 am on Au­gust 8.

The body was dis­cov­ered af­ter Mathu­ra’s cousin Mark went to his home around 10.30 am and de­tect­ed a stench com­ing from in­side the house.

He called out to Mathu­ra but got no re­ply. He then opened the front door and saw Mathu­ra’s body on the floor of the bath­room. He called the po­lice. The dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer viewed the body and it was tak­en to a fu­ner­al home pend­ing an au­top­sy at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in Port- of-Spain.

PC Gel­lizeaue of the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.